"See the pretty girl in the mirror there...."

My doctor thinks I have body dysmorphic disorder. I know I am overweight and I can probably stand to lose about 50 lbs, but I am not high risk for anything that might go along with being obese or overweight. I cant tell you what other people see when they look at me but I can tell you that what I see is someone else. I never see what other people describe as beautiful. I see something plain and dull and misshapen.




I hate my smile, my eyes are crooked and uneven, my cheeks resemble st bernard jowells, and my skin is like a map of the desert.

But....I'm not depressed, and I'm not bulimic, or suicidal. I live with my "condition" every day and every day I find ways to like myself, regardless of my "condition" [faults?]...